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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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reports of the County Council or Borough Council's Housing
Departments. Where requested to do so, the Council must
supply to an owner or tenant of a house information of the
number of persons permitted by the standard contained in
the Housing Act, 1957, to occupy the dwelling. Ninety-six
dwellinghouses were measured during 1959 for this purpose.
CERTIFICATES OF DISREPAIR
By the Rent Act, 1957, a tenant may apply to the local
authority for a Certificate of Disrepair, if, within six
weeks of serving a notice on his landlord specifying the
defects which in his opinion ought reasonably to be
remedied, the defects remain unremedied; or alternatively, if
the landlord has failed to give an undertaking to remedy
the defects or such of them as the tenant may have agreed
as sufficient.
Where a landlord has undertaken to remedy defects
either following a notice from his1 tenant or following
a notice by the Council of their intention to issue a
Certificate of Disrepair, then at the end of six months
from the date of that undertaking, either landlord or
tenant may apply to the Council for a Certificate as to
the defects remedied.
Details of applications received during the year are shown below :-
| No.of applications for Certificates of Disrepair | 96 |
| No. of applications for Certificates of Disrepair refused | 2 |
| No. of notices to landlords of the Council's intention to issue a | |
| Certificate of Disrepair | 109 |
| No. of undertakings received from landlords,and accepted by the Council | 66 |
| No. of Certificates of Disrepair issued | 36 |
| No. of Certificates issued to landlords as to the remedying of defects for which the landlord had previously given an undertaking | 70 |
| No. of Certificates issued to tenants as to the remedying of defects for which the landlord had previously given an undertaking | 25 |
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